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Ten Ways to Aggravate the Tar Out of a Romance Writer

 

1. Install a program on her computer that winds up locking up her word processing program every few minutes.
2. Call her on the phone every five minutes and ask her how the book is coming.
3. Stand behind her while she's working and read over her shoulder.
4. Ask her when she's going to write a real book.
5. Inform her, while she is on deadline, that you, your spouse and your six children are coming for a visit and need to stay for the week
6. Wait until she's in another part of the house, then casually walk by and ask, "Is your computer supposed to make that loud, grinding sound?" Rosalyn Alsobrook "Tomorrow's Treasures", St. Martin's Press, Nov 1997
7.   You see her standing in the check-out line at the grocery store and you know she's had a bad day because she's wearing her faded-but-favorite sweat suit, her hair is so greasy it looks as if it's wet, she doesn't have on a lick of make-up and she's juggling a whining kid on each hip while trying to write a check in the "Cash Only" express line. From at least half-way across the grocery> store, you shout to her, "Hey! Aren't you Fill-in-the- name-here, that famous romance author?" Peggy Moreland "Texas Brides", Silhouette Desire Series, 1998

8. Ask her any variation of: "Are those love scenes based on personal experiences?" and "How do you research your sex scenes?" Lubina Bogoeva,DIAMOND DREAMS, May'98

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